Posts tagged theory
“ Removing something from its original context or setting, we kill the sense of awe that we might attach to it’s uniqueness. The danger when people mistake the reproduction for the work of art itself. It becomes presented sans “aura”
Walter Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Pretty salient in the age of the blog where context is lost and content is morselised into appropriate digestible chunks, the design blog et al have extended the problem of reproduction with low cognitive cost to publication.
“ The virtual world we studied appears to behave in the way a real economy does. The people there are as rational (or irrational) as we are offline. As a result, there are price indexes, an inflation rate, etc. This suggests some at least rough mapping is taking place for the world’s economics, and that maybe, just maybe, these worlds might serve as testbeds for economic research and policy tests.”
“ It’s the deep, attentive engagement that the Web is draining away, as we fill our iTunes library with tens of thousands of “tracks” at little or no cost. What the Web tells us, over and over again, is that breadth destroys depth. Just hit Shuffle.”
“My biggest fear is that people are overloaded with information and have no idea what is relevant and what is irrelevant”
Neil Postman on Cyberspace, 1995 (via tranquileye)
“ Social Animals: tomorrow’s designers in today’s world by Sophia Parker, argues that design education is still largely hinged on industrial principles. Students need to be equipped with a broader range of research and communication skills, alongside their more traditional design skills, and encouraged to think more laterally about the sites and spaces where these could be used.”
David Brussat: A perfect storm for modernism | The Providence Journal
THE ECONOMY and the environment form a perfect storm for modern architecture, an indefatigable changeling of a style that has weathered storms before. Maybe at last it will sink.
Brussat’s rant on modernism is interesting but inevitibly the idea that modernism will collapse on itself strikes me as simplistic at best
